I have always believed in responding creatively to the maximum range of visual stimuli, for perhaps to do otherwise would be to inhibit an artist's potential to emotively touch people in visually diverse ways. (Greg Allen)

I'd rather be a could-be if I cannot be an are; / because a could-be is a maybe who is reaching for a star. / I'd rather be a has-been than a might-have-been, by far; / for a might-have-been has never been, but a has was once an are. (Milton Berle)

-prepared remarks for Imagining Toronto: A City-Builders' Symposium...We are potential. There is so much room for innovation, but like insecure tweens we are afraid to make the first move. We aren't sophisticated or experienced enough to be bold. We are awkward and gangly and have
bad proportions. (Shary Boyle)

If the eye watches the hand, this would enable the marks being placed on the page to receive the proper guidance, but the results would be memory and destroy the potential of drawing the reality. (Lorne Coutts)

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king. (Abraham Maslow)

I have allowed myself to lead this little life, when inside me there was so much more. And it's all gone unused. And now it never will be.
Why do we get all this life if we don't ever use it? Why do we get all these feelings and dreams and hopes if we don't ever use them? (Shirley Valentine)

Like the hollow nothingness within the seed of a tree, which contains the potential of the entire tree, the experience of nothingness in the unmanifest field has within it the lively potential of everything in creation. (Maharishi Mahesh Yogi)